The Northmen’s LogOctober 2014 Volume 50, Issue 2

Wrapping Up the Season page 6-7

Luscious skin = Lush Life page 12-13

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Seniors Kaleb Murray and Conner Clapham laugh while playing team games at Young Life camp.

Photo credit to Brad Voigt, YL

Lush products line the counters as shoppers make their way through Oak Park Mall.

Maddie Russell Photographer

On the Cover: Junior Rene Rivera Ponce turns to look for a pass as the sun sets on Friday, Aug. 15.

News/ Feature 2Hot...Or Not?Recap of Gladfest

Sports

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Wrapping Up the SeasonsSpiking it to the TopStunting it to the Next Level

Photo Essay 6Fall Sports

Opinion

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Too Much Fundrasing?Trick-Or-TreatSprinting into Five StarsLife of a Band MemberStrangers

People 10Halloween PlansFitting In Young Life

Recreation 12Footloose Sneak PeakFavorite Halloween CandyFall Photo ContestLuscious Skin = Lush Life

Personal Finance: Hot or Not?Mabrey Wathen Writer

Learning how to manage money, once you graduate high school, can be difficult. The district offers a person-al finance class students must take and pass, in order to graduate. The class was being run a little differently this year.

The North Kansas City School District wants to try out a new way to run the class to better prepare students for the real world.

“I like having an off block, but I don’t like how much online portion there is,” said junior Mikayla Winkler.

This year, students enrolled in the personal finance class only have to come to school for that class once a week. The required days that students are supposed to physically be in class are called ‘PF Live’ days. The oth-er days they are regularly scheduled to have that course will be treated as an off block.

“Well I go in late, so I really like it because it gives me more time to get ready, or sleep, or whatever I need to do,” said Winkler.

Mostly everything: assignments, tests, quizzes, etc. will be done on Blackboard.

“It’s the worst, and the deadlines come really fast and it’s really hard to keep track of sometimes,” said Win-kler.

The students have to teach themselves a lot of the work this year, and be disciplined enough to turn assign-ments in when they’re due.

“It’s ok, I mean sometimes I like doing the work on my own, but some of the stuff that he gives us, it’s the harder stuff that he hasn’t taught us, so it’s really hard to teach myself that stuff,” said junior Jacelynn Hastings.

Gladfest brought a flurry of colors and entertainment to the Gladstone community on Sat-urday, Oct. 4

Kaley Breault

Freelance Photographer Olivia Eissler Editor-In-Chief

Maddie Russell

Managing Editor

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Festing in Gladstone

Life of a Band MemberAudrey Ferguson Columnist

Six hours outside, nine hours of exhausting work, occasional water breaks, 60 minutes for lunch, and the summer sun radiating on you just to say you’re a part of Oak Park’s marching band. Although you work hard, and sweat a ton, it really was the highlight of a lot of our sum-mers.

For me marching band wasn’t my original plan. I thought you could do symphonic band OR marching band. I had come home from a great vacation to Disney World to find out I had to end my summer by going to school every day. Something about being outside all day didn’t sound so great to me. I wanted to enjoy my last two weeks of summer by binge watching Netflix, or eating a whole pizza on my own.

On the first few days of band camp, you learn some-thing we call fundamentals. These are the basic steps

and tricks to become a great marcher. Fortunately for freshman and newbies, you get a whole day to learn these without the upper-classmen.

Having such a mixed group of people, grade wise and personality wise, it’s not too hard to make friends. It’s

sort of impossible to NOT make a friend. You can make friends with the people on your instru-ment section. You can venture out of your section and go be-come best friends with a person

in percussion, or a sousaphone player. The great thing about being a part of band is that you’re all here for the same reason. You love music.

Overall marching band was a great place to make friends, have fun, and be a part of something significant in our school. Remember for next year, marching band runs the two weeks before school starts.

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Strangers: Celeste Polanco Columnist

The first day of school is always nerve wracking. Especially when it’s your first day of high school. New teachers, new environment, new classmates. Different schools are clashing together, creating a com-pletely new, fresh school. With so many new stu-dents, the odds of you getting classes with your friends are high.

Walking into class on the first day of school and seeing nothing but unfamiliar faces is the worst situa-tion. Anxiety levels are past the roof, embarrassment is at an all time high. Some may question, “Who am I going

to sit with?” as they look around, ob-serving groups of strangers convers-ing with each other. Not knowing anyone also leads to another prob-lem, whom are you going to walk with to lunch?

Thankfully, for every problem there is usually a solution. If you don’t have any-one to sit with in class, then be grateful that most teachers have seating

charts. That way you will not have to awkwardly scan the tables for an empty seat. Not knowing anyone could also contribute benefits to the amount of classwork you get done in

that class. Typically, when one is with their friends, they spend most of their time off task, talking, and less time actually working or studying. Now, you will not have to worry about get-ting distracted and not getting work done in that class. If you have no one to talk to, you could try to be friendly, try striking up a conversation with anyone, looks for common grounds, topics that you both enjoy. This is a chance to start over and make new friends.

So yes, not having any classes with your friends sucks, but there is al-ways time to make new ones. Friends make getting through a class a whole lot easier. So why not meet new peo-ple.

“Not knowing anyone could also contribute benefits to the amount of classwork you get

done in that class.”

“I wanted to enjoy my last two weeks of summer by binge watching Netflix, or eating a whole pizza on my own.”

Enemies or Life long Companions

* Special thanks to the guest columnists from English language arts teacher Lisa Elder’s classes. Anyone who would like to write a column, or a letter to the editor can bring a printed copy to E134, or email christina.geabhart@nkcschools.org. Letters to the editor or columns must be signed or contain your name, and be under 350 words.

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Never too Old to Grow UpMaddie Russell Managing Editor

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, mostly because it’s the one day a year you can get free candy, dress up as whoever you want, not get judged, and you get to scare some peo-ple pretty bad. It’s the perfect holiday for me because all three of my favorite things are combined into one.

Even though I’m now 17, trick-or-treating is my favorite thing of all time. Basically, all you have to do is go door to door, ask for candy, and they practically just hand it to you. Some-times it would rain on that night, or it was in-sanely cold, but that’s what made it fun, and you got more candy that way, because some parents wouldn’t even bother taking their kids out in that weather. I remember spend-ing hours sitting on my living room floor after trick-or-treating, organizing and counting out how many different types of candy I had, and trading them with my older brother for the ones he didn’t like.

Costumes are also one of the great things about the holiday. You can be whatever you want, just as long as you aren’t yourself. When I was little I never wanted to be scary for Hal-loween and I can proudly say I was a princess for at least three years in a row, if not more. There are no limits on this night, and you can be as creative as you want.

Then there’s the scaring. I can’t say I’m par-ticularly good at scaring people since I trip and bump into everything possible when I’m trying to stay quiet, but that’s why I go to the haunted houses. Most people don’t find get-ting scared to be exciting, but honestly I like it. I don’t get scared often and it’s one way I can get my blood pumping and my heart rac-ing.

Depending on who is reading this, or how old you are, I don’t think anyone is too old for trick-or-treating, or the holiday itself. You’re the only one who can tell yourself you’re too

Joseph Hass Writer and Photographer

I have been in school a fair amount of time and have had my fair share of fund raising. I, myself, have had a horrible experience with fund rais-ing.

Since I am in some extra curricular activities, like cheer and choir. I have had up to three fund raisers at a time and for some classes, if you don’t try to raise funds they get upset with you. Granted some of the fund raisers were easy to sell like candy for cheer

and cheer t-shirts, however others like cookie dough for choir are a bit harder.

When I have had more than one going on, I feel overwhelmed. Some experiences I have had were not the best. I have had a hard time selling items for various events.

I believe it is a popularity contest, for example, when I was selling can-dy for cheer, so was someone more popular than I. I would ask people

and they all said, they already bought some from him.

Fund raising is a way that students and staff raise funds for expenses, like in choir, for my suit and tie.

Granted I do love competition, but I don’t like it when I am practically bothering people for their money.

While fund raising is not my favor-ite thing in the world, it does make things a little easier on you when you have an expense.

WHAT? More Fund raising?

For the first time ever, I’ve viewed a movie with-out reading the book first. Usually, if you view a mov-ie before reading the book, the audience could become confused, not understand-ing all the references made. However this was not the case, because “The Maze Runner” was so beautiful-ly directed, it didn’t need much of an explanation.

The main character, Thomas, wakes up in an elevator, having no memo-ry of who he is or how he got there. After the eleva-tor opens he is greeted by a large group of guys who have also been in the same position he is in. Thom-as soon realizes the seri-ousness of the problem at hand when he finally analyzes his surround-ings: surrounding him at all sides are the walls of a large maze that has been trapping the other resi-dents for over three years with no escape route.

What I was most im-pressed with was the won-derful acting job of Dylan O’Brien, who plays the main protagonist Thom-as. With every scene he impressed me with his in-credible gift of acting, pre-senting a new attitude with each scene, never over, or under doing his role.

However, his co-star Kaya Scodelario, who played the role of Theresa, was a bit disappointing to me. Playing the only girl in the whole movie you would think she would be quite a significant character. Much to my dismay she had next to no personality in the entire film, only coming in at the last moment of fight scenes to finally slay the bad guys.

With technology advanc-ing each year, I am more and more impressed with the graphics and picture quality every time I go to see a movie. However I was a little disappointed in the

quality of the graphics for this movie. Don’t get me wrong, they were superb, but the lack of focus on them was what threw me off. There were points in this movie where there was so much detail and focus on the graphics that you couldn’t even tell what was going on in the background with the characters during fight scenes. There would be maybe five seconds of outstanding footage, and

then it would go on to show five minutes of black flour-ishes, and a mess of shaky camera work.

Usually, I can predict the ending of a movie 80 per-cent accurately, leaving me hardly surprised when I get to the ending and find the outcome, but with “The Maze Runner,” the plot was solid throughout each and every scene, hav-ing me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire movie.

What most actors seem to lack these days is the emotion that needs to be portrayed in order to fully understand their charac-ter. Without it, the char-acter is basically invisible, and adds nothing to the film. O’Brien was the per-fect protagonist for this movie; and I would defi-nitely consider watching the next two movies in the series.

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Photo credit to imdb.com

Into Five Stars

Maddie Russell Managing Editor

Sprinting

Fun Facts About the ‘MazeRunner:’The main character Dylon O’Brien also stars in the hit show “Teen Wolf.”Blake Cooper, who plays Chuck in the film, recieved his role via a few tweets with the director.Producer Wyck Godfrey had his son, Wyatt, help choose roles for the characters, since his son is a huge fan of James Dashner’s novels.

Information from hype.my

Junior Julian Garcia chases after the ball on Tuesday, Sept. 9.

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Senior Huso Rizvanovic comes in with a kick on Tuesday, Sept. 9.

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the End of the Season

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Senior Lauren Sullivan fore-hands the ball, returning it to Park Hill South on Thursday, Sept. 4.

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Senior Cydney New-ton prepares for a serve against Northtown on Thursday, Oct. 9.

Fall SportsWrap UpKatie Westberg

Photo credit to Jerry Wopata

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Senior brothers Joe Dyer and Jake Dyer pace the field to-gether on Tuesday, Sept. 9.

Junior Kaitlyn Henderson comes in for a hit on Thursday, Sept. 4.

Olivia Eissler Editor-in-Chief

Katie Westberg

Wrap Up Seniors Cydney New-ton and Rebecca Saari and junior Karli Reichert brace them-selves for the next serve on Thursday, Oct. 9.

Junior Alan Salgado (No. 9) and senior Jake Dyer (No. 4) get their heads in the game on Friday, Aug. 15.

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Katie Westberg Photographer

Photo Credit to Jerry Wopata

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SPORTS WRAP: The End of Great SeasonsThe fall sports season is coming to an end and our Lady

Oakies and Northmen have reportedly worked hard.

FOOTBALLFootball has put in hard work over the summer and

during this fall season.“We’ve accomplished a lot more than in years past. I

feel like we’ve accomplished a lot more as a program,” said senior Austin Warman.

According to players, the football team also has come together as a team.

“Were more of a unit; and we trust the coaching a lot more,” Warman said.

SOFTBALLSoftball, just like football, worked hard over the sum-

mer to improve as a team. The softball team was very proud of its season.

“Varsity did better than last year because they made it to districts,” said junior Kayla Alexander.

Softball also participated in weights and conditioning,

over the summer. Going to the weight sessions at 6:30 or 9:30 a.m. paid off.

“It helped with our infield drills and our hitting,” Alex-ander said.

CROSS COUNTRYCrosscountry has had a wonderful season according

to, sophomore Joey Anello and he has high hopes for next year’s season.

“I feel like we’re making improvements and we’re going to be really good next year with us being older and upper classmen,” Anello said.

GIRLS GOLFGirls golf had a great season according to head coach

Seth DeRose. “It’s hard when you have people with zero playing ex-

perience, but it was fun. We may not have beat as many other teams as before. But I don’t look at it as that. I look at it as the girls are learning a sport that they can play for the rest of their lives if they choose to,” DeRose said.

Nathan Roppa Writer

Olivia Eissler Editor in Chief

“At the beginning of the season, we played hard teams who showed our weaknesses,” said senior Julia Wopa-ta.

Wopata has been playing volley-ball here for four years. This is her second year playing for varsity. She said that to prepare for districts, her team worked on defense, offense and being consistent.

“I think the team takes every game seriously,” said Wopata. “The teams there have a chance of being success-ful, but I think we are a good team.”

Wopata said that their hardest game was against Platte County. She was excited for districts, because they were here this year, and she said that it was more likely for the bleach-ers to fill up with fans, and when there are lots of fans, the team tends to do better.

“I’m not looking forward to having the possibility of having a lot of tests

that week,” said Wopata.Last year the team only had two

seniors who played varsity, and this year they have four seniors: Kelly An-drews, Rebecca Saari, Cydney New-ton and Wopata.

This year, Wopata said, “We get along and love playing with each oth-er.”

Wopata said that during her fresh-men year, the varsity volleyball squad was close and they did better when they knew each other better.

“We will do pretty well, as long as the team stays composed and works together,” said junior Orie Agbaji.

Agbaji has been playing volleyball here for three years; all on varsity. Recently she confirmed that she will be playing volleyball at Texas Univer-sity when she graduates.

“My favorite part is making more memories with my team, winning conference and districts, and making

my last memories with the seniors,” said Agbaji.

Agbaji was not excited for the practices ahead and she said that this year, since the volleyball squad is smaller, seven girls, everyone gets to play.

“Everyone wants to believe that we will win,” said senior Rebecca Saari. “Hopefully we will win.”

Saari has been playing volleyball here for four years, one of those was on varsity. She was looking forward to winning districts, but not the run-ning during practice. To prepare, Saari said the team does 70 touch-es, scrimmages against JV, butterfly drills, three-person pepper and block control.

“We are more of a team this year,” said Saari.

*As of press time Monday night, the results of the district contest played this week were unknown.

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Spikingit to the Next Level

it to the

Olivia Eissler Editor in Chief

Bases, flyers, back spots. All of these have to work together

to make the final production spec-tacular. Cheer has been working on making its production spotless these past weeks, in hopes of wooing the judges at state.

“I think if the kids stay focused, give their 100 percent, they will do extremely well,” said head cheer coach Kelsey Mayabb.

This was Mayabb’s first year of being head coach, since the former head coach, Megan Pabon, recently had her baby. For state: Grain Valley, Ray-Pec, and Fort Osage are all in the same division for cheer.

“I’m really looking forward to watching them,” said Mayabb. “They are the most talented I have seen, and when they put on a show, they

put on a show,”To prepare for state, the cheer

team had three separate practices a week.

Mayabb was not looking forward to state being over, because it is a fun time of year, when she gets to see a lot of new progression.

“Everything we do, we do great,” said senior Kelly Andrews.

Andrews has been on the cheer squad one year, and was trying to balance it out with volleyball.

“To prepare, we have practices, full out routines, and a pre-show we do before we head off to state,” said An-drews.

Andrews was looking forward to state being over, but she was not looking forward to the number of full-out routines she had to do before

state competition.“There is always a possibility

something could go wrong and my nerves are always racing,” said ju-nior Katia Newell.

To make practices go smoothly, the cheer team keeps a positive attitude, that way they work better, and hard-er together.

“I love the feeling right before we go on the mats,” said Newell. “It is a terrible but an amazing feeling. I love going out on the mats with my family. That’s what we are.”

At the state meet for cheer, the squad earned seventh place. And qualified six All-State including An-drews, junior Katia Newell, junior Landon Patterson, junior Bailey Mc-Quillen, junior Winnie Adenic and ju-nior Jenna Heinz.

The varsity cheer squad performs a stunt at the first home football game on Friday, Aug. 22.Maddie Russell Managing Editor

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Young Life Brings the FunOlivia Eissler Editor-in-Chief

Taylor Dorrel throws up a peace sign after getting covered with mud, flour, and shaving cream at Muck-fest on Wednesday, Sept. 3.

Young Life members pose at Timber Wolf Lake, Michigan, after an eventful week over summer 2014.

Photo credit to Brad Voigt

You may have noticed all of the cre-ative photos advertising for Young Life popping up all over Twitter. It is that time of year again for clubs to be starting up, and Young Life is one of them.

“Young Life to me is a place to stay,” said senior Kaleb Murray. “During high school, you can get off the right path, but Young Life helps me stay on the right path with my friends.”

When Murray attended Young Life camp this summer, he said it changed his life. It gave him connections, a sense of a backbone, and support by friends. It is a new journey for him.

“At club on Mondays, we start at 7:27,” said Murray. “Till 7:45 we sit around and talk, then we go in and sing songs, do a skit, sing a more spir-itual song, have a message, then we go to Taco Bell afterward.”

Murray likes Young Life, because it connects school and religion togeth-er, but not in a school setting.

When club gets can-celled, he is not very happy.

“Young Life is a way to learn about

God, and having a one day a week to him,”

said senior Sophia Con-treras.

At Young Life camp, Contreras said the camp

made her see things from a different perspective now.

Also she said there is some-one out there who cares.

“At club, we sit around and learn about God,” said Con-treras. “We meet new peo-ple, and everyone is nice.”

Contreras’s favorite part

is having a new experience every week, and learning something new about God every week.

“It is a way for people to have a fun time and be themselves while feel-ing God’s love through their friends,” said senior Conner Clapham.

Clapham switches off hosting Young Life at his house with other members.

This summer was Clapham’s first time attending Young Life camp, and he said that the camp taught him a lot about himself and how to be patient.

“My favorite part is all the people I get to meet from all four schools,” said Clapham. “I get to know the Oak Park people better. There is always a rivalry on the field, but there is no separation between schools at club.”

Clapham wishes Young Life was more than once a week. After Young Life club, everyone heads over to Taco Bell, and Clapham loves to or-der the burritos. He said that was the most fun thing.

Some of the big events Young Life hosts are muckfest, which is the big-gest mud, flour, and shaving cream fight ever, Young Life camp, and Rad-Dog, which is a road trip the club goes on.

Young Life also does campaigners, a bible study once a week, themed clubs, and does small things like playing Frisbee as a club, and going out to eat.

“God changed my life in a better way,” said Contreras.

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Q: What are your plans for Halloween?

Junior Brianna Kruse: “Well I’ll dress up in a cos-tume obviously, and I will hang out with friends, and watch scary movies, and sleep; eat all our candy. [I might dress up as] a cop.”

Q: What have you done in the past?

BK: “I had a Halloween party in the past, I guess.”

Q: What’s the coolest thing you’ve done for Hal-loween?

BK: “Probably costumes, my costumes. It’s fun to dress up and go to costume parties.”

Fright Night PlansMabrey Wathen Writer and Photographer

Almost everyone wants to fit in, but nobody really knows how. I could give you a step-by-step guide, or I could just tell you the truth.

Fitting in isn’t all that important. We live in a society where people are judged for being

different, then, when they try to fit in, they’re judged for being like everyone else. People will judge you no matter what, so you might as well just do what makes you happy.

However, there are some traits people accept more than others, and you can acquire these traits without changing who you are. Especially in high school, interests and opinions can change drastically and quickly.

For example, people’s sense of humor changes all the time. Let’s be honest, making people laugh is one of the quickest ways to make friends, so a good sense of humor is a great trait to have. But humor isn’t the most import-

ant thing in school, or anywhere else. One of the most important things for fitting in or even

just meeting people, is how you carry yourself. It’s good to be confident, but without coming off as rude or cocky.

But like I said, fitting in isn’t all that important. Nobody needs to look, talk, or act like anybody else. Un-

fortunately people are constantly judged whether they’re different or the same as everyone else but when it comes down to it, the best anyone can do is just ignore it.

Especially in America, people like to put labels on ev-erything.

The best thing anyone can do is just be unique. Don’t try to be like anyone else. People will always have opin-ions and chances are they won’t always be fair so just be you because, in the end, society’s opinion of the average person won’t matter.

MY VOICE: Fitting in = Not ImportantAndrew Curtis Freelance Writer

Junior Brianna Kruse Senior Courtney Bowman

Q: What are your plans for Halloween?

Senior Courtney Bowman: “I don’t really know yet, but I know I’m going to dress up, so even if I’m at my house doing nothing, I’m going to dress up. I might be a ghost.”

Q: What have you done in the past?

CB: “I normally take my little cousin trick-or-treat-ing, and that’s pretty fun.”

Q: What’s the coolest thing you’ve done for Hal-loween?

CB: “I went to [Halloween] Haunt [at World’s of Fun] on Halloween that was like crazy fun. It’s a completely different vibe on Halloween [at haunted houses].”

‘Footloose’ Sneak PeekMaddie Russell Managing Editor

Two years ago it was “Beauty and the Beast.” Last year it was “Legally Blonde.” This year’s musical is going to be one the district will never forget: “Footloose.”

This year’s cast is full of surprises and new lead char-acters including junior Chaun Tanguay, senior Emily Cun-ningham and senior Seth Argyle.

Tanguay plays the lead role of Ren McCormack, who is the main protagonist of the musical.

“I’ve been waiting for this. Last year I was kind of a ma-jor role but I wasn’t really the lead. I’m super excited this year and I’m ready to go and just ready for the show to premiere,” Tanguay said.

With Tanguay juggling multiple activities at once, in-cluding Oak Street and cheerleading, he’s pressured with everything he’s taken on.

“The show is very stressful on me,” Tanguay said. “I have a lot of lines in a lot of scenes. I have a lot of songs to memorize. It’s very very stressful trying to get every-thing down especially when people are counting on me.”

As the show progresses and the date comes closer, the cast is working harder than ever to produce a great show.

“Everyone is trying really hard to make sure the show is being the best it can be,” Argyle said. “We have a lot of added stuff you wouldn’t usually see in a high school play. We’re all practicing really hard and working to memorize all the lines and music and we’re all just working hard to make it the best it can be.”

In the coming together of the show, the director, Brian Gehrlein, isn’t the only one working to put the show to-gether.

“Mr. Gehrlein, Mr. [choir teacher Chris] D[roegemuel-ler], and [choregrapher] Kenny all work together trying to mesh our musical into what it actually is. Gehrlein is in charge of acting, Mr. D is in charge of the vocals, and Ken-ny is in charge of the choreography. On Mondays we have vocal rehearsals, and Mr. D always works with whatever numbers he feels like we need to get done. Even this week we have to memorize most of our songs by now. Then on Tuesday sometimes Kenny comes in and does a review session or he teaches a number so that we know it for a later on review session. On Wednesdays and Thursdays Geraline has acting prompts and you have to do whatever

scenes that are on the calendar for that day. And then Kenny choreographs again on Friday, so they all kind of work together in a weird kind of way where it somehow all meshes together and it seems to work.” Cunningham said.

Overall, Argyle says he thinks the show will be a hit.“I think the show is going to run really well. We might

have a few hiccups because some of the singing parts a little higher than most of us are used to, and the danc-ing that Kenny wants us to do is a bit more difficult than what we’re used to, but I think that once we get the idea of what we can do and what our limitations are we’ll focus on those and we’ll work together to make the show turn out really well.” Argyle said.

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Cody Green Writer and Photographer

October 2014 The Northman’s Log

Luscious Skin=Lush LifeMaddie Russell Managing Editor

Many people use one or more products to make their skin blemish free or even younger looking, but how many of those products have little to no preservatives?

Located in Oak Park Mall, Lush is one of the only stores in the metro area that sells handmade cosmetics such as face masks and moisturizers that are perfectly healthy for the skin and body, but they don’t sell just face prod-ucts. From bubble bars, to bath bombs, to conditioners; Lush has just about any product you need to keep your body fresh.

I recently found this store a few months ago, and was amazed at everything the store had to offer (and how good it smelled).

Not knowing exactly what to get, I settled on the Bub-ble Gum Lip Scrub paired with a Honey Trap Lip Balm one of the employees had suggested to me. Honestly, I have no idea how I’ve been getting through life without it.

Within one use, I noticed a big difference with how my lips felt before and after. I usually have chapped lips around the fall time, but this year I’ve barely had to use any chapstick whatsoever.

The bath bombs, however, are my favorite. They’re very easy to use and they smell amazing. If you want something to help you relax, this is definitely for you. If you’re setting up your tub for a relaxing bath, drop one of these bad boys in the water for a refreshing scent and a

beautiful display of colors.Most of these goods are very inexpensive and can cost

anywhere from $5 to 20, depending on the size of the product and what it’s made of.

What I also like is that the soaps and scrubs are long lasting and don’t expire very quickly even though they have no preservatives.

I 100 percent recommend these products to anyone who is looking for a healthier way to keep their skin clear and refreshed, without using so many chemicals.

Cody Green Writer and Photographer

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